Re: Which linux distribution? VIA EPIA CN10000, boot from Compact Flash

On Wed, 02 May 2007 06:08:03 -0700, al99999 wrote:

Hi,

I am looking for some advice on which linux distro to go with. I have a
VIA EPIA CN10000 mini-itx board, and am looking for a distro that will
not take up more than around 100MB and is bootable from a compact flash
card plugged into the boards IDE connector. It needs to have X and
also is easy to customise/trimmed down (so it always boots up the same
program and you can't quit etc..).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Al

Also consider EpiOS & Freepia, both are Linux distros for the Epia
platform.

I used early versions of EpiOS on my Epia SP13000 for a while. Overall
it was pretty nice, but didn't meet my specific usage needs, so EpiOS was
replaced with a different OS later on. Anyways, it's been a while since
I last tried EpiOS, so YMMV.

As to Freepia, I've a little about it here & there, but never actually
used it. As such, you are on your own with this one.

Lastly, if you are simply looking for a small generic Linux distro, then
also consider Puppy Linux & SLAX. I'm just not sure how well they will
function with Epia specific hardware - but they are good small distros
and have worked/tested well on various hardware for me, for quite some
time.

You should be able to locate all of these distros on:
http://www.distrowatch.com/

Hope this helps...

.